Burnt Orange Color Codes

Burnt Orange is a mid-tone, vivid orange with the hex code #CC5500, RGB values of 204, 85, 0 and an HSL value of hsl(25, 100%, 40%).

HEX	#CC5500
RGB	204, 85, 0
HSL	hsl(25, 100%, 40%)
HSV	25°, 100%, 80%
CMYK	0%, 58%, 100%, 20%
LAB	51.08, 44.16, 60.77
CIELCHuv	51.08, 108.36, 24.33°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 1595 C ΔE 2.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: chocolate ΔE 9.5

Source Wikipedia, List of colors (cites University of Texas at Austin)

Burnt Orange Color Hex Code

The Burnt Orange color hex code is #CC5500. Those six digits are three pairs, CC for red, 55 for green and 00 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#CC5500

Burnt Orange Color RGB Code

The Burnt Orange RGB code is rgb(204, 85, 0). Red carries the most light at 204 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(204, 85, 0)

Burnt Orange Color HSV Code

The Burnt Orange HSV code is 25°, 100%, 80%. Read it as a hue of 25 degrees, 100% saturation and 80% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

25°, 100%, 80%

Burnt Orange Color CIELChuv Code

The Burnt Orange CIELCHuv code is 51.08, 108.36, 24.33°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 51 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 108 is how far it sits from grey.

51.08, 108.36, 24.33°

Tonal scale

What are Burnt Orange Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Burnt Orange Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #CC5500. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #0077CC, a mid-tone, vivid azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#CC0011 and #CCBB00 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#00CC55 and #5500CC complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #00CCBB and #0011CC. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #0077CC, and #11CC00 with #BB00CC. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

4.31:1

4.31

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

4.87:1

4.87

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Burnt Orange reaches 4.31:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 4.87:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Burnt Orange against another color →

Color vision

How Burnt Orange looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#A6A529

Burnt Orange changes substantially here. ΔE 60.1

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#ACB32E

Burnt Orange changes substantially here. ΔE 65.5

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#C8383B

Burnt Orange changes substantially here. ΔE 31.5

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#7A7A7A

Burnt Orange changes substantially here. ΔE 75.1

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Burnt Orange reads as #ACB32E. That is a shift of ΔE 65.5, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 65.5. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Burnt Orange in code

:root {
  --burnt-orange: #CC5500;
}

.example {
  color: var(--burnt-orange);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'burnt-orange': '#CC5500',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let burntOrange = Color(
    red: 0.800,
    green: 0.333,
    blue: 0.000
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="burnt_orange">#CC5500</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const burntOrange = Color(0xFFCC5500);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Burnt Orange Color?

Burnt Orange reads as energy and low cost. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 51 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Burnt Orange Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Chocolate (#D2691E), though it is not a match: Delta-E 9.5 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 1595 C at #D15B05. The name Burnt Orange is the one carried by Wikipedia's list of colors.

How is Burnt Orange Color Made?

On a screen Burnt Orange is made by additive light: 204 red, 85 green and 0 blue out of 255, with red leading and 0 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 58%, 100%, 20%. Starting from the pure hue at 25 degrees, Burnt Orange is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.